Take Shelter Page #2

Synopsis: Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jeff Nichols
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  42 wins & 36 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2011
120 min
$1,600,000
Website
474 Views


We just gotta work it like this

for a while, okay?

While rescue workers made several

attempts to reach the family,

- Walter Jacobs' wife and brother-in-law died.

- That's what I don't understand.

If he didn't do anything,

why did you put him out back?

What?

Did you hear me?

I said if he didn't do anything,

why did you have to put him outside?

I just wanted him to be

outside for a while.

He's your dog.

He's always been an inside dog.

He's my dog, that's why he's outside.

Look,

right now with Hannah and everything,

I just think it'd be better.

- Hannah loves Red.

- Hold on.

The gas cloud spread across

their six-acre property.

The only way off their land

was across the train tracks,

which were blocked by wreckage.

I tried using some wet rags

and some towels to breathe through,

but that just seemed

to make it worse.

While rescue workers made several

attempts to reach the family,

Walter Jacobs' wife and

brother-in-law died in the home.

Jacobs survived despite enduring 11

hours of exposure to the gas cloud...

You hearing this?

It's awful.

Eleven hours.

No way out.

Hannah.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

- Babe?

- Yeah?

You got the number for Dr. Shannan?

You're still not feeling good?

Yeah, we got the number?

Yeah, baby, but he'll be closed today.

Right. Yeah, I'll call tomorrow.

Honey, if you're not feeling good,

- we got to take you...

- No. Stop!

Okay.

Do you want me to cancel lunch today?

Sh*t.

- What is that?

- I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I just...

I got a sore throat.

I'm sorry I'm taking it out on you.

I was gonna leave Hannah with you

so I could go to church,

but I'm not gonna with you like this.

It's fine. I'll be fine.

- No. She needs breakfast.

- I got it.

I'm sorry that you feel bad,

but you need to drop the attitude.

Come on. Just go.

- What's wrong with you?

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Just go.

Hannah's in the den.

We have cereal for her.

We're going out.

We're going out. Okay?

It's okay. It's okay.

You stay put, okay?

Let's just start.

Let's all join hands for the blessing.

- Where the hell have you been?

- I know. I'm sorry. I had to run an errand.

- You're really late.

- I know.

You didn't even bring your cell phone.

Missed you at church this morning, Curtis.

Dad.

He knows what to do

if he wants me to stop asking.

Was it a good service?

It was. It was good work.

I'm thinking about cleaning up

that storm shelter out back.

Curtis?

- Curtis, how you doing, bud?

- Hey, Doc.

- How's my girl?

- She's good.

That's good to hear.

Tilt your head back for me.

I don't have a cold.

- Did she get that down wrong?

- No, I just told her that.

So what's the problem?

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Jeff Nichols

Jeff Nichols is an American film director and screenwriter from Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Nichols has directed Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special. more…

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